Free Republic 1st Qtr 2024 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $74,893
92%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 92%!! Thank you everyone!! God bless.

Keyword: strikes

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • Graham on Biden Middle East Strikes: We Only Killed ‘Some $#@&+$$

    02/04/2024 8:56:29 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 21 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 02/04/2024 | Pam Key
    Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday” that President Joe Biden’s military strikes to dozens of sites in Iraq and Syria used by Iranian-backed militias only killed “some @#&$@##.” Graham said, “They have four oil refineries you can see from space. If you knocked one of them out, they would stop this. Our American troops are in harm’s way. If the goal is to deter Iran, you’re failing miserably. If the goal is to protect American troops, you’re not achieving your goal. If you’ve convinced Iran you don’t want a wider war, they believe...
  • John Bolton calls for ‘disproportionate’ strikes inside Iran after US deaths

    01/29/2024 8:30:44 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 86 replies
    The Hill ^ | 01/29/2024 | LAUREN SFORZA
    Former national security adviser John Bolton called for “disproportionate” strikes inside Iran after a drone attack killed three U.S. service members in Jordan over the weekend. Bolton said Sunday night on NewsNation that the U.S. needs to carry out retaliatory attacks in the wake of the deadly drone strike. He said the U.S. needs to “impose enough pain on Iran” to ensure it does not attempt a similar attack on the U.S. again. “To be clear, I don’t think it should be proportionate. I think it should be disproportionate. That’s how you create deterrence in the mind of your adversary,...
  • Kaine: We Have Questions About Biden’s ‘Legal Rationale’ for Yemen Strikes

    01/28/2024 12:08:41 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 4 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 01/28/2024 | Pam Key
    CBS’s “Face the Nation” that the Senate will press President Joe Biden over multiple airstrikes against Houthis in Yemen without congressional approval. Partial transcript as follows: MARGARET BRENNAN: And we have one of those, a- agencies with us later in the program, though far smaller than the 13,000 employees of the UN. President Biden has talked about these U.S. strikes on the Houthis continuing. I know you have some issue with that.
  • 200 protesters hold ‘emergency rally’ in Times Square to denounce ‘dangerous’ US strikes on Houthi militants in Yemen

    01/12/2024 10:36:39 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 28 replies
    NY Post ^ | 01/12/2024 | Peter Gerber and David Pro
    Nearly 200 demonstrators marched and shouted their way through Times Square Thursday night in a last-minute “emergency rally” called to condemn the US bombing of Houthi-linked sites in Yemen. A combination of organizations took to the streets to speak out against the bombings in Yemen while also slamming Israel for its military campaign in Gaza following the Oct. 7 terror attack by Hamas. Chants of “hands off the Middle East” and “hands off Gaza” boomed through midtown Manhattan as demonstrators unfurled a banner that stated “Stop the US bombing in Yemen” and waved “Free Palestine” and “End all US aid...
  • City of Strikes: Eiffel Tower Shut to Tourists as Workers Walk Off Job

    12/27/2023 8:42:04 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 22 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 12/27/2023 | BREITBART LONDON
    PARIS (AP) – The Eiffel Tower was closed to visitors Wednesday because of a strike over contract negotiations timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the death of its creator, Gustave Eiffel. One of the world’s most-visited sites, the Eiffel Tower is typically open 365 days a year – though it is occasionally affected by strikes – and is expected to play a central role in the 2024 Paris Olympics. Some tourists were visibly dismayed upon seeing a big sign beneath its iron façade announcing the closure in multiple languages, and apologizing for the inconvenience. Others took photos anyway,...
  • Defense Secretary Says Strikes in Response to Attacks Against U.S. Troops in Iraq Were ‘Proportionate

    12/26/2023 2:06:24 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 29 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 12/26/2023 | KRISTINA WONG
    Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement that U.S. military strikes against sites used to injure U.S. troops in Iraq on Christmas Day were “proportionate.” “Today, at President Biden’s direction, U.S. military forces conducted necessary and proportionate strikes on three facilities used by Kataib Hezbollah and affiliated groups in Iraq,” Austin said in a statement on Monday. He added: These precision strikes are a response to a series of attacks against U.S. personnel in Iraq and Syria by Iranian-sponsored militias, including an attack by Iran-affiliated Kataib Hezbollah and affiliated groups on Erbil Air Base earlier today, and intended to...
  • Sanders calls resumption of Israeli strikes in Gaza ‘beyond the pale’

    12/01/2023 1:48:15 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 53 replies
    The Hill ^ | 12/01/2023 | LAUREN IRWIN
    Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) called out Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday, as Israel restarted attacks in its war on Hamas after a roughly weeklong truce. “Netanyahu’s resumption of bombing in Gaza is beyond the pale,” Sanders posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “Two million people are now in south Gaza. Many have fled earlier fighting in the north.” Israeli fighter jets hit Gaza minutes after a weeklong truce expired on Friday, resuming the nation’s war with Hamas. Israel dropped leaflets over parts of southern Gaza urging residents to leave their homes, suggesting it will be...
  • Di Leo: Inflation and the Fall of the U.S. Dollar

    09/27/2023 5:00:17 PM PDT · by jfd1776 · 14 replies
    Illinois Review ^ | Sept 27, AD 2023 | John F Di Leo
    On a recent trip to the grocery store, I picked up a half gallon of orange juice. Only, it wasn’t a half gallon. Hasn’t been a half gallon in years. I still call it that, but it’s only 52 ounces. Sometime in the past twenty years, the old half gallon of orange juice – 64 ounces – gradually started to shrink. Now they sell a 52 ounce bottle or carton. At first, it was just one brand, then two, then all of them. And while I haven’t made a careful study of it over the years, once they all standardized...
  • Chuck Schumer Strikes Alongside United Auto Workers as Biden Plays Catchup with Trump

    09/26/2023 1:44:39 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 13 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 09/26/2023 | HANNAH BLEAU
    Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is the latest to join striking United Auto Workers (UAW) members on the picket line, speaking with members and holding up a sign in Tappan, New York, as Democrats attempt to halt former President Donald Trump’s courtship of the strikers. “We’re going to fight until we win,” Schumer said, explaining that his father, a “union guy,” told him, “When you’re doing the right thing, when you’re doing something important, look in your heart, make sure it’s the right thing.”
  • Biden strikes with UAW workers: ‘You deserve a hell of a lot more’

    09/26/2023 10:50:16 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 34 replies
    The Hill ^ | 09/26/2023 | ALEX GANGITANO
    President Biden made an unprecedented stop Tuesday, joining the picket line with striking autoworkers and marking the first time a sitting president has done so. The president stood in solidarity with United Auto Workers (UAW) at a General Motors facility in Van Buren Township, Mich., and spoke to the group via bullhorn alongside union President Shawn Fain. “Wall Street didn’t build the country. The middle class built the country. Unions built the middle class,” Biden, wearing a baseball cap and quarter-zip sweater, told the striking workers. “Let’s keep going; you deserve what you’ve earned, and you deserve a hell of...
  • Ford preparing white-collar workers to fill parts orders if UAW strikes - salaried Ford workers could soon run forklifts if union employees walk off job next month

    08/17/2023 7:36:57 PM PDT · by dynachrome · 41 replies
    Fox News ^ | 8-17-23 | Breck Dumas
    Ford CEO Jim Farley joins "Barron's Roundtable" to discuss the debate on electric vs. gas cars, the auto company's growth and approach to the auto industry, and reacts to Warren Buffett's comments on investing in the industry. Ford is readying plans for its white-collar salaried employees to step in and keep parts flowing in the instance that its blue-collar union workers walk off the job next month amid threats that the United Auto Workers are preparing to strike at Detroit's Big Three automakers. The Detroit Free Press first reported that Ford is holding meetings with salaried workers like engineers to...
  • The American States That Strike the Most

    07/29/2023 9:21:51 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 3 replies
    STATISTA ^ | 07/29/2023 | Katharina Buchholz
    UPS employees are edging closer to a major work stoppage that could be the biggest the United States has seen since the 1950s. The approximately 330,000 UPS drivers, loaders and handlers who are represented by the Teamsters Union on Wednesday rejected a final offer by the company as "unacceptable" in early July, CBS reports. Talks are now being presumed as the group's labor contract runs out at the end of the month.Strikes and work stoppages have returned as a mainstay of U.S. news among recent high profile walkouts, for example at the Writers Guild of America, among newly unionized Starbucks...
  • Summer Of Strikes? 650,000 American Workers Threaten To Walk Off Job (Bidenomics On Parade!)

    07/23/2023 6:02:47 AM PDT · by Kaiser8408a · 20 replies
    Confounded Interest ^ | 07/23/2023 | Anthony B. Sanders
    Joe Biden loves to tout “Bidenomics” which is a top-down command economy model with massive Federal spending directed primarily at green energy. But remember that a pillar of Bidenomics is support for labor unions. But “Union Joe” will be remembered as “Inflation Joe” as inflation remains hot. But now the labor unions are threatening to stall the recent rise in real weekly earnings (finally above 0%!). Tensions between employees and employers are heating up this summer. Bloomberg reports 650,000 workers threaten to walk off the job and picket in the streets to secure improved benefits, wages, and other conditions amid...
  • ‘Goal achieved’ in deadly Ukraine missile strikes that leave at least 22 dead: Kremlin

    04/28/2023 10:43:03 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 8 replies
    NY Post ^ | 04/28/2023 | Lee Brown
    The Kremlin celebrated bringing fresh hell to Ukraine on Friday with a wave of early morning missile strikes that killed at least 22 civilians, including four young kids. “The strike has achieved its goal,” Defense Ministry spokesman Lt. Gen. Igor Konashenkov crowed of the first large-scale cruise missile bombardment in nearly two months. “All the designated facilities have been hit,” the Kremlin official said, claiming without evidence that the struck buildings housed Ukrainian military reserve units awaiting deployment. Images instead showed deadly devastation in a number of cities across Ukraine, including a nine-story apartment block in Uman with a huge...
  • Transport woes hit Germany ahead of Monday strikes

    03/26/2023 3:28:04 PM PDT · by dynachrome · 2 replies
    DW ^ | 3-26-23 | DW
    Both the EVG railway union and the huge Verdi services union are combining forces to push for increased pay for their memberships amid persistent inflation. Verdi last week said the union was calling for 120,000 workers — including security and ground workers at all German airports except in Berlin — to walk out. Almost all major airports are on strike, including Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, and Stuttgart. The German airport association ADV warned that as many as 380,000 airline travelers would not be able to take their flights because of the planned strikes. The EVG union is calling for 230,000 workers...
  • DirecTV strikes deal to bring back Newsmax

    03/22/2023 8:16:00 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 32 replies
    The Hill ^ | 03/22/2023 | DOMINICK MASTRANGELO
    DirecTV and Newsmax have reached a new multiyear deal that will bring the conservative channel back to some 13 million customers this week. The deal marks the end of a lengthy and bitter public relations battle between the two companies that hinged on carrier fees, with Newsmax’s leadership repeatedly accusing the cable provider of political bias. “Newsmax recognizes and appreciates that DirecTV clearly supports diverse voices, including conservative ones,” Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy said in a statement celebrating the agreement. “As a standalone company, DirecTV helped give Newsmax its start nearly a decade ago as it continues to do with...
  • Russian troops launched massive strikes at night on critical infrastructure in Ukraine.

    03/09/2023 5:52:37 AM PST · by JonPreston · 102 replies
    Twitter.com ^ | 3/9/23 | TLDR
    TLDR update Russian troops launched massive strikes at night on critical infrastructure in Ukraine.The list of the weapons involved in the attack has significantly expanded: the RF Armed Forces used kamikaze drones, cruise missiles, and even the Kinzhal hypersonic complex.What is known by now?Kiev: the engine room and boiler room of CHPP-5, a large generating station in the capital, were hit. Together with other hits, the city experienced significant problems with electricity and communications. Previously, the facility has repeatedly become the target of attacks by Russian troops, but the station still continued to work. If the Armed Forces of the...
  • Is Mick Lynch plotting the first general strike in nearly 100 years? Fears over mass coordinated action to cripple UK as RMT chief assembles 'war cabinet' of union barons... as Britain braces for another week of walkouts

    01/08/2023 7:22:20 AM PST · by C19fan · 6 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | January 8, 2023 | Matthew Lodge
    There are fears union barons could be plotting the first general strike since 1926 when they meet at a 'war cabinet' later this week. Some of the country's top union bosses, including Mick Lynch, will meet at the Trades Union Congress (TUC) to plan their next move after weeks of crippling walkouts. It will come just a day after they conduct talks with ministers amid ongoing pay disputes that have seen large parts of the country grind to a halt over the last year.
  • Appeals Court Strikes Down Bump Stock Ban in 13-3 Decision

    01/06/2023 5:36:41 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 41 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 01/06/2022 | Awr Hawkins
    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit handed down a 13-3 decision Friday striking down the regulatory gun control that banned bump stocks under former President Donald Trump. Reuters reported that the court intimated that actions on guns should be taken by Congress rather than the executive branch. Circuit Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod wrote the majority opinion for the Fifth Circuit and also opined that the framers of the bump stock ban did not provide “fair warning that possession of a non-mechanical bump stock is a crime.”
  • Zelensky addresses Russians after New Year’s Eve strikes: ‘No one will ever forgive you

    12/31/2022 5:20:20 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 84 replies
    The hill ^ | 12/31/2022 | Jared Gans
    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told Russia that “no one will ever forgive you” for spreading terror following a series of missile attacks on New Year’s Eve. Zelensky said in an address on Saturday that the missile attacks will not mark the end of the year but the outcome of Russia’s fate in that it will not be forgiven. He mentioned that Russia launched missile attacks during the war at other holidays such as Easter and Christmas. “They call themselves Christians. They are very proud of their orthodoxy. But they are following the devil. They support him and are together with...